Can You Guess the Nationality of Asian English Speaking Countries by Their English Accent?

can't be better than this number one is India Americans are not good at this and I'm I'm just going to throw it hi my name is Brook Goodman and today we are going to play Guess the nationality based on the English accents I think it's going to be a really good time yeah of course actually I noticed that a lot of people who speak English as a second language especially in Asia they speak a really perfect version of English English I'm from Florida so like the south of the United States it's very lazy spoken English so every time I hear someone who speaks English as a second language I'm always really really impressed by their literal Perfection the pronunciation isn't totally clear of course we can still see the influence of people's native language and how they pronounce English it's different based on wherever country they're from I noticed that a lot of people like from the Philippines the vowel sounds are a little bit different and maybe the way that English is spoken it's more of like a staccato if it comes from like someone who is Japanese or Korean a lot of times they mix up the r and the L sounds I understand why those R and L sounds are very similar in their own native languages or maybe they don't even have some certain sounds like the letter z in English doesn't exist in Korean so it sounds like a hard J uh yeah I think I can maybe I think maybe I'll get tricked a little bit realistically speaking but I think I can guess ah I'm going to listen closely to how they pronounce the vowel sounds first then I'll listen to some of the consonant sounds like RS L's D's and T's v's and WS I'll check those next can you please introduce yourself hello my name is Olivia nice to meet you hello hello my name is Olivia nice to meet you hello my name is Olivia nice to meet you hello my name is Olivia nice to meet you hello my name is Olivia nice to meet you this is going to be a little bit harder than I thought their accents are actually quite clear so I can still hear some things that aren't native English sounding so I'm going to try to think about what country comes from oh my gosh okay what's your favorite movie what's your favorite movie what's your favorite movie what's your favorite movie what's your favorite movie first guess which country they come from I think number five I I think Vietnam I think number four is Philippines I think and number three maybe Japan I'm just going to throw it okay I think maybe number one Malaysia number two Indonesia number five Vietnam that's that's my guess I think I might be totally wrong can't be better than this number one is India can't be better than this can't be better than this can't be better than this can't be better than this I thought I heard a pretty distinctive accent I used to have some like some friends like online friends that are Indian and they speak Hindi so that's what to me that's what the the Hindi accent sounds like with English so I think number one is India I'm certain actually so four four left what is your favorite color my favorite color is red because it's the color of Love yeah it's nice present my favorite color is blue because I look good whenever I wear blue number three what is your favorite color m my favorite color is actually blue also because it represent kind of like peace it brings me peace whenever I see the color blue so yep my favorite color is pink because it's my comfort color I think number four is Philippines my favorite color is also pink because it's so cute number one is India actually I'm having a hard time with the rest of them number two is Malay I have to I don't think number three is from Japan at all now trying to think of countries World Geography Americans are not good at this Asian country that speaks English as a first language I feel like that's not many pan I think number three is Pakistan she's got a really soft and sweet voice when I when I was when I was in high school I had one of my classmates is also from Pakistan her voice is also really soft and sweet so okay so number one is India number three is Pakistan can you please tell me what your favorite color is one more time my favorite color is blue because I look good whenever I wear blue I'm going to guess two is Philippines number four can you please tell me your favorite color one more time my favorite color is pink because it's my comfort color no number four is Philippines number sorry number number five can you please tell me your favorite color my favorite color is pink because it's so cute I think think number five is Hong Kong and number two is Singapore okay that's that's my final you will have bad times but it will always wake you up to the good stuff you weren't paying attention to suddenly time travel seems almost unnecessary because every detail of life is so delightful your spark isn't a Soul's purpose that last box Fs in when you're ready to come live when you are old all you want to do is stare at the scenery I've never felt so peaceful it's warm it's cozy and safe like somebody's whispering in your ear everything's going to be okay number one I think is India because just the way that the the consonants and the vowels are spoken in a shorter manner I feel like that accent is an Indian accent so that's why I'm pretty certain number one is India number two I think maybe Singapore actually I don't know anyone from Singapore maybe like process of elimination I guess okay number three I think is from Pakistan because the way that she speaks the words really softly like a flower and then number four is Philippines pronounce the English I can't pinpoint exactly it's kind of like the intonation is a little bit different like maybe intonation is a bit steeper with the English words so I think I think that's why number four is Philippines and number five I think is from Hong Kong Hong Kong still has like some Mandarin language influence and so I I know that Hong Kong they speak canones I heard a little bit of like R sound wasn't totally clear so that's why I'm kind of leaning towards Hong Kong I'm still not totally sure except for number one number one I'm totally sure but everyone speaks English quite well so I'm glad they gave me a hard time yeah of course I'm ready hi my name is Grace and I'm from India nice to meet you nice to meet you y hello hello my name is hazeline and I'm from Malaysia oh sorry I got you're not exactly wrong I I lived in Singapore for a long time really okay okay so yeah okay okay I'm not I'm not crazy hello my name is sing I'm from Singapore okay hi my name is anuka I'm from the Philippines okay yeah nice to meet you hi I'm Amanda I'm from Hong Kong yeah okay okay I wasn't totally wrong okay I think it was nice meeting you ladies yeah like three and a half technically three and a half to me I listen to the speed at which words are pronounced and I listen to the intonation first Sometimes I hear like up and down intonations or sometimes the consonant and the vowels aren't 100% pronounced like uh native English English speaker would pronounce it either from the UK or from the US or wherever yeah those those were the clues that I kind of listened out for and I used that and I I did a good job yay so I have to say the most difficult one to guess was number three I was so sure I was so sure she was from Pakistan but I was wrong so she's actually from Singapore so now I know what a what a true Singapore accent sounds like I feel like I've learned Lot number one I knew was from India uh because I've just heard that accent so many times growing up so you know America has a lot of people from different countries I knew a lot of people from India and Mexico so it just it's my comfort comfort zone almost so really familiar with it uh I feel like this was a really good experience uh ever since I moved to Asia I was able to meet so many people from so many different countries on a much larger scale than when I lived in America so I feel like because I can meet all of these these lovely ladies I can know a little bit more about the world and the people in it so today I try to guess people's nationality based on their English accent if you like today's video please give a like write a comment and subscribe and see you soon [Music] bye [Music]

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Published: Thu Jan 04 2024